Boing Boing picnic in San Francisco, July 10th

We're having our first ever Boing Boing meet-up in San Francisco this summer! We hope you'll come hang out with us at Golden Gate Park on July 10 from 11am to 3pm! Bring food, drink, and wonderful things for show-and-tell. We'll have new BB tshirts and stickers to give away.

You can RSVP on our Facebook event page (but you're also welcome to just show up); feel free to toss around ideas on the wall about stuff we can do during our time together. Here's a link to the exact location on Google Maps. Hope to see you there!

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Who drew the girl?
- David Pescovitz
  
  That’s Jackhammer Jill, rendered by our own Rob Beschizza!
RangerCraig

Had a great time at the picnic today. Thanks to boingboing for putting it on. I’ve posted my pics of the get together at http://www.flickr.com/photos/rangercraig/sets/72157624467174618/
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  It looks arctic.
ADavies

Damn. And here I am in the wrong hemisphere.
Jen

Come host a picnic in Florida!! <3
Maggie Koerth-Baker

This is my “Living in the Midwest” sadface. :(
- dculberson
  
  Mine, too. Maybe we should organize a Midwest meet-up some day.
Jason baker

Wow, Boing Boing for the win. You managed to pick one of the four days this year I’m leaving my crappy apartment here in Chapel Hill to go visit my friend’s crappy apartment in downtown San Francisco. See you there!
Xeno

‘xactly… are there picnic ‘mirrors’? Specially in case this one goes down… or doesn’t go down.. or goes down and needs others to go down. Or goes down and needs others to get down (wit yer bad selves).
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I want to see photos. There must be at least one person dressed as Jackhammer Jill.
- coaxial
  
  Please do not encourage the cosplayers nor the furries.
  
  Thanks.
  
  MGMT (The band, not the management.)
- David Pescovitz
  
  Brilliant! Best Jackhammer Jill costume receives a Very Special Prize.
Nash Rambler

What!?! San Francisco gets a picnic and all I get here in Baltimore is one lousy Cory Doctrow? This is my “living on the east coast” sadface =(
Rajio

Whaaaaa, I thought BB was in Toronto! :(
- David Pescovitz
  
  Boing Boing is actually many places, including Toronto.
  
  Pesco: SF
  Xeni: LA
  Mark: LA
  Cory: London
  Rob: Pittsbugh
  Battelle: Marin
  Dean: Pittsburgh (SF for the summer)
  Lisa: SF
  Maggie: Minneapolis
  Brandon: Austin
  Ken: Toronto
  
  Antinous, Arkizzle, and Avram? The tubes.
cholten99

Oh yes – there needs to be worldwide satellite parties – can’t let all the SF-folks have all the fun!

Okay – let’s start with my neck of the woods. :-)

Who’s up for a 10th July picnic in London?

Pass it on!
Brainspore

I’ll check with my wife to see how high her nerd tolerance is likely to be that day.
thebelgianpanda

Will Pizza Hacker be there?
Anonymous

I’m in Los Angeles and I want to meet Mark and Xeni. I’d give them a hot dog print, cool cats. (Although San Francisco would be very nice to meet up for a picnic, too.)
Greg323

Shoot. I’m going to be out there a week too late.

Anybody want to mirror one in St. Louis on the 10th?
Anonymous

Oh wow do I wish I could attend. What a blast!
unwoman

Oooh, perhaps I will come with my cello.
- David Pescovitz
  
  Yes please! I’d love to see/hear a lot of musical instruments at the picnic!
johnfromberkeley

anyone want to rideshare from berkeley that day?
- Anonymous
  
  that would be me. jacqueline. im five blocks from Berkeley bowl
osmo

Pffft! SF? Who needs to be in SF? I can be BB all year round here in Gothenburg, Sweden – so go suck a walrus at fishermans warf for all I care! Weeee… lookatmego… oaaahh! Its *amazing* here – hope you guys are doing fine in that hempinfested, dank pit in which you decided to hold a meet-up.
footage

2 blocks from my house…yeah! BTW we really like the fog out here, hope you do as well.
David Pescovitz

Oh yeah. Just so nobody flips out when Mark isn’t there jamming on his cigar box guitar and Cory doesn’t fly by hanging from a balloon, you should know that unfortunately neither of them can make it.
Anonymous

Who else agrees that we need to create a Boingboing picnic in London as well?
David Pescovitz

Thanks so much, RangerCraig! It was great meeting you. See you on Alcatraz!
pinehead

If you guys decide it’s not hot and humid enough for you in San Fran, we’d love to have you down here in Atlanta.

As was said earlier, I wanna see photos.
- Dean Putney
  
  I fully intend to slather the internet with photos of the event.
hungryghost

On the one day that my mom is coming to visit! Maybe she will want to hang with the other happy mutants (but probably not). Anyway, a fantastic idea… and maybe if this one goes well another will be scheduled!
lolbrandon

For as much as Boing Boing trashes Facebook, it’s a little ironic that you’re using the service to RSVP and wall post suggestions.
will_orz

Longtime lurker that lives about 5 blocks away, so I’ll be there!
Teller

Don’t forget to wear your ‘nom de net’ name tags.
benher

When is the BoingBoing Osaka picnic? Can I join the staff just so I can start it? I don’t even have to be a contributor or an editor… you know… just “Osaka Picnic Guy” or something…
girlgolite

Do I HAVE to sign in to Facebook to RSVP? Really? Don’t want to.
- Dean Putney
  
  You don’t have to do anything. The Facebook event is just so we can get a general headcount. You do not need to RSVP on Facebook to show up.
  - David Pescovitz
    
    What’s Facebook?
Revisorius

If Xeni and Mark ever want to try one in L.A. that’d be awwwsum.